Mar. 15, 2025
Matthew McConaughey, Mary Kathlene McCabe, and Rooster McConaughey.Photo:AFF / Alamy
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The brothers grew up in a tumultuous but loving home, with their parents marrying three times and divorcing twice, a subject Matthew opened up about in his 2020 memoirGreenlights. While the award-winning actor and his brother Rooster have each gone on to pursue careers in entertainment, Pat has kept his life entirely out of the spotlight.
From their Texas upbringing to the current bond, here’s everything to know about Matthew McConaughey’s older brothers.
Mar. 15, 2025
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Matthew MorrisonandMarissa Jaret Winokurreunited with their originalHairspraycast members earlier this month and turns out, they still know all their moves!
The two actors — who played lovebirds Link Larkin and Tracy Turnblad in the musical — got all dolled up for a private gathering at New York City’s 54 Below on Aug. 15 where they sang and danced alongside former costars Harvey Fierstein,Laura Bell Bundy, Linda Hart, John Hill, Shoshana Bean and more.
Mar. 15, 2025
Matthew Perry.Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty
Last week’s criminal charges in connection with Matthew Perry’s fatal drug overdose have “brought back a lot of feelings” for his closest friends, a source exclusively tells PEOPLE.
TheFriendsactor, 54, was founddead face down in his jacuzzion Oct. 29, 2023. A medical examiner determined the actor died of “acute effects of ketamine.”
The U.S. Attorney’s officecharged five individualsin connection with Perry’s death last Thursday, Aug. 15: two doctors, a womanknown as the “Ketamine Queen"who allegedly owned a “stash house” and supplied the illicit drugs, an alleged distributor, and Perry’s personal assistant, who said in his plea agreement that Perry told him to"shoot me up with a big one"hours before his death.
Mar. 15, 2025
With new confidence in his sobriety,Matthew Perryis ready to share his story.His new memoir,Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing(available Nov. 1) chronicles his journey in life — and his harrowing battle with addiction.“I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” Perry, 53, tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s cover story. “I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober, and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction to write it all down.
Mar. 15, 2025
Matthew Perry at the GQ Men of the Year party In West Hollywood, CA in November 2022.Photo:Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic
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Matthew Perry’s legacy is living on.
TheMatthew Perry Foundationlaunchedon Nov. 3, with the goal of “identifying addiction as a disease, addressing the complex of stigmas that prevents individuals from seeking and accessing care, and fiercely advocating for better and more equitable treatment.”
Ahead of Giving Tuesday, Perry’s family tells PEOPLE that the foundation is one crucial way they are paying tribute to the late actor, who was open about his own struggle with addiction throughout his lifetime before hedied at age 54on Oct.